Bakemonogatari 01 Released!

This show is amazing, but translating and typesetting it was like hell. Finally, we’ve done it! Enjoy!
We will not release softsubs separated from raw this time, since timings are different & TS probably will not display properly.

Those newspaper-like things are festival overviews and have really boring text on them.

“Moe” is used to describe people (mostly used for girls) that are attractive from a sexual point of view.
“Tsundere” is used to describe people who switch between rough and caring modes.
(good example is Asuka from Evangelion or Shana from Shakugan no Shana)

情・連・相 line in one of signs stands for 情報・連絡・相談 (Information, Contact and Advice)
And is a course of actions that subordinates should do in Japanese slave-like boss-subordinate relations.

西尾維新
Novel author’s name is Nishio Ishin, but is written in a different romaji system and it becomes a palindrome.
It is written as NisiOisiN to emphasise this.

Senjougahara-sama.
-sama is an honorific that is used to address a person who is a lot higher than you in a social standing.
-chan is used to address mostly girls of the same same or lower social standing than you.

Cowlick (阿呆毛 – Ahoge) represents character hard-headedness.

The name 忍(Shinobu) consists of 刃(Blade) above 心(Heart).
So it’s literaly Heart-under-blade, the vampire’s name.

About the crabs.
おもし蟹 (Omoshi kani) – Mind crab
重いし蟹 (Omoishi kani) – Heavy crab
重石蟹 (Omoishi gani) – Heavy stone crab
おもし神 (Omoshi kami) – Mind god
As you can see, they differ in Japanese pronunciation very slightly, so as it said they were derived from each other.

Thank you guys so so much for this release. Since you’re looking at releasing it in 480, could you possibly also throw in a hardsub too? Certain scenes, like the one with all the traffic signs, are too much for my computer to handle… the subs flash on and off, and the video lags. Thanks so much, and again, I love the subs!

sdfsdfsdf :
Ugh, overlays.
Die in a fire. You and any other group who does that.

For some writings, overlay is unavoidable. If you want to see the original writings you can always watch the video with the ASS track of dialogues only, can’t you? Good job, II & qq! Go on like this! *thumbs up* 🙂